PDB Statistics: Growth in Number of Unique Protein Sequences in Released PDB Structures (Cumulative) at Identity 50%

This chart shows the annual and cumulative numbers of protein sequences in released PDB structures. The chart can be viewed for a few different levels of sequence identity since the beginning of the PDB archive. The cumulative bars represent the growth in unique protein sequences (number of polymeric entities) across history. The yearly bars (dark blue) tell how many new protein sequences were added in a certain year.

Note: The total number of sequence clusters in the statistics table is linked to the sequence cluster group search result page. There is a default precision threshold in calculating the numbers for performance balance. So the statistics count may have a slight discrepancy compared to the actual non-redundant group search result when the result count approaches or goes above 10,000. The group search result page provides an accurate count. The statistics page provides the trend.

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Sequence cluster level:

YearNumber of New Protein SequencesTotal Number of Protein Sequences
19761212
19771123
1978326
1979228
1980331
1981738
19821856
1983763
19841174
1985983
1986891
19879100
198821121
198936157
199036193
199140233
199253286
1993166452
1994342794
19952841,078
19963141,392
19974711,863
19985692,432
19997443,176
20008534,029
20018774,906
20029295,835
200313417,176
200418729,048
2005210111,149
2006234113,490
2007255216,042
2008237618,418
2009243420,852
2010243423,286
2011218725,473
2012233527,808
2013245530,263
2014283333,096
2015250435,600
2016273938,339
2017286241,201
2018286244,063
2019309447,157
2020365850,815
2021304553,860
2022382457,684
2023379061,474
2024371565,189
2025274967,938